占领华尔街的民主意义。

“民主不会作为一个永久性的政府形式存在。民主的存在，只是因为选民发现，他们可以用选票来从社会财富里取钱给自己。从那个时刻起，大多数人总是会把选票投给承诺分发公共财富给自己的候选人，结果是，民主国家总是因为执行过于宽松的财政政策而崩溃。”  -- from Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813)

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy.

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